Best Memories of Twenty Fifteen

Looking back on 2015 we went through our blog posts and put together a compilation of our favourite memories and photos. We've sorted them and added links back to the original posts as well. This is our story for the year and these are our best experiences of 2015.

January: We applied for our working visas to live in the United Kingdom. It's easy to lose track of something you are doing, or to keep putting it off. We used the pictures as our wallpaper on our cellphones and computer to remind us of our goals everyday. Such as "If your dreams don't scare you, they aren't big enough" and "If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it"

February: Our visas got approved. We packed up our apartment, stored our belongings at our parents house and prepared for the adventure that awaited us. This is a photo of us the last few days before we moved out of our apartment. We used a world map to put pins into the destinations we have been to. (It's now in storage, and we have made a paper one out of travel magazines to have on our wall in England)

April: We moved into our flat in Birmingham, England. We settled in and started exploring. Birmingham is the biggest city we've lived in by far and it took awhile to get our bearings. We explored the neighbourhood in Edgbaston, Harbourne and the City Centre as well.

Birmingham City Centre.

We made our way to London to see what the fuss is about. London is a must see and we had been excitedly waiting to visit the big city. London did not disappoint and we had a blast there. There is so much going on there and it is very exciting.

Neal's Yard in London, England

May: Our tour of Vegan festivals in the UK started with VegFest in Bristol. We had so much fun at that festival and visiting Bristol that we decided that we would go to more vegan festivals as a way of exploring the UK. Vegan festivals are a good excuse to travel to different cities in the UK. We chose the following photos because they are our favourites from Bristol.

Vegfest festival goers.

St. Peter's Church

Ship in River Avon

June: Although we were both working full time in June we managed to find the time to visit Leeds for the Greater Yorkshire Vegan festival. We visited Lincoln to hang out with some vegan facebook friends and we further explored Birmingham as well.

Briggate Leeds

View of Lincoln Cathedral from Lincoln Castle

July: We flew to Barcelona and met Mom where we embarked on an amazing cruise through the Mediterranean . We stopped in Italy, France, and Spain.

September: We started off in Liverpool for the long weekend. We really liked Liverpool and plan to return there. We tried to go through all of the love locks to find our names, but we were unsuccessful on finding our names together. It was still really fun to read the love locks and see what people wrote on them.

Love Locks

October: It was a very busy month. We found ourselves in Manchester for the Northern Vegan Festival.

Comments

That sounds just perfect!!! You're right, before taking the first step, its really very scary, but once in, there's obviously no turning back! Durlston & Bournemouth are indeed beautiful! Glad you know that you managed to see so many places even after june with your full time work!

Sounds like a perfect year! Even with work you where able to travel and see some interesting places. I love that. It's nice to read about other peoples travel years and compare them to your own. I know they are all different, but still it's nice to see how others do it all.

Sounds like an amazing year of travelling. I would love all those vegan festivals you visited throughout. I have yet to hear of any out here in Vancouver, Canada. Glad you took the leap and went out on your adventure. A year goes by fast, right?!

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